The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-06-02
MINNESOTA NEWS.

MINNESOTA NEWS.
Temperance In The Minnesota Pablo sehssls.
!. The state Superintendent ~ ,Jnbl;c IN.
9truction has issued d circular interpreting
the law passed by the last legislature rs-
guiring the teaching OF physiology and nv.
giene in the public schools with reference
to narcotics and stimulates. He sum
marizes the results, which should
be attained at an follows:
Children should be trained to q consci-
entious regard for and obedience to n.y.
eienic law. They should feel that laws of
health are sacred, and that they ought
not to do what in any degree impairs or
threatens the health of the body. They
should cultivate high ideal of health, its
beauty, its power and its usefulness; and
wlthal cultivate an ambition toward
physical a. we'll as moral perfec-
ton. They should know how the
elements OF tho world around them affect
them, and condition the health and use OF
their bodies, as ~ the structure of tho
body In its frame. work. muscles nerves,
organs OF nutrition and OF sense; (2) tho
sustenances OF the body in cleanliness, rest
and clothing.
Tue treatment Of the. subject by tho
following:
l.. Names and sources Of the common
narcotic poisons: 2. Effects, BY their
use, upon the different parts
OF the body, as stomach, :. blood
heart and various tissues. 8. Effect upon
mental and moral faculties. 4: The tend
ency of indulgence to increase appetite.
!, Hereditary effects. 6. The tendency
Ofindulgence to create disease, and weaken
vital forces and prevent recovery from dis
case. Z. Prevailing errors corrected. as
that alcoholic drinks give strength and in
crease power to endure heat and Gold. 8.
Its effects upon economic habits.
- Arthur, O'Keefe was killed on the Mil
waukee Short Line at Merriam Park St.
Paul.
At the fair grounds st. Paul 9th there
was large sale of Shorthorn cattle owned
by James J. HillandN. P. Clarke. Promi-
nent stockmen from every portion OF the
ty sales. nggregating about SD, 900.
Judge Goodrich, SO we'll known in St.
Paul, and Minnesota generally is reported
in very poor health and suffering a good
deal of pain.
letter has been received at the COVER
nors office from Gen. Kruger, of the regular
army, announcing that Light Battery =,
Fourth artillery, will encamp with Second
regiment, National Guard, at Mapkato.
John Fiddes, postmaster at jackson,
is dead. He came from Sterlingshire,
Scotlond. in 1881, and was brother OF
Hon. Alex Fiddes. He was appointed
postmaster in 1886. succeeding his brother.
The ordinance submitting the PROPOSE
ton to bond the city of Winona for $780,
railroad passed the council unanimously
amid great enthusiasm. The only condi-
ton made is that twenty miles of road be
completed and in operation by January l,
1880.
At Litchfield court, the most impor tant &C
tion on trial was that OF James Ma rtin in
dicted for stealing horses. He pleaded
guilty to the charge OF larcency in the
second degree, and was sentenced to three
years in the penitentiary.
At Hawley, the farmers elevator was
burned with over 80, 900 bushels of wheat.
1t is thought to have been the work Of
tramps. Loss, $4,000. The elevator
will be rebuilt.
William Gilbert, q Chicago travelling
man, was found murdered at midnight at
st. Paul in a low negro dive. Arrests on
suspicion have been made.
At Minneapolis, DR.. Samuel Lindley sur.
prises his relatives and friends by COM
uniting suicide, without apparent reason.
w. H. Jackson, of the Duluth theater,
has received plans for his new theatre,
which it is proposed to erect on Superior
street this year.
Lille Fair, seventeen years old, was
brutally murdered at Ashby, Otter Tail
county.
Judge Brill at St. Paul has granted de-
cree OF divorce to Thomas 3. Humphrey
from his vile Lizzie, on the ground of de-
-so1
Mimi, in July, 1888. Plaintiff is Il horse
trainer, and when he removed to St. Paul
his wife refused to come with him. and he
has not since seen her, although two years
have elapsed.
The arguments in the Nelson will case
were concluded at Minneapolis, the jury re-
tired, and in about five minutes returned
with ~ verdict sustaining the will, which
bequeaths all the property, valued at
about 5000, 900, to the widow, Mrs. EN-.
lily Nelson.
A young gentleman whose name is believ.
ed to be Gill, and who is thought to belong
in Minneapo arrived in London
(Eng) hotel at the beginning OF the week
with plenty OF money and baggage. He
behaved SO strangely he is believed to be
insane. He fasts for long intervals.
Eric Hangros, whose daughter had been
seduced by a man named Winter. in Moor
head, was found hanging to a tree, dead,
near the latter town.
The third quarterly financial statement
OF the state board OF charities and corrcc.
tions has been issued by Secretary Hart.
1t shows the total appropriations of the
legislature for the fiscal year ending July
81. 1887, for current expenses. lands.
buildings, etc, to be $3.50, 193.45. Theex.
penses Of the several institutions for the
past nine months have been: Current ex-
pcnses. $3O7, 1851; lands, buildings, etc,
$125,372.47, IL total OF $i32. 4S9.2S.
There still remains undrawn from the state
treasury from the appropriations of the
OlO.42. The treasurers OF the several in.
situations had on hand April 80. 1857,
$50, 1854.
The n. Y. Spirit of the Times speaks in Il
very complimentary way OF the Iberality
OF the Minnesota State Fair association
in the matter OF purses for spead
A recent law passed by the late legisla.
ture requires all railway companies doing
business in the state to turn into the sec.
rotary of the state before the first of July
the amount of the stock of the company
and its condition.
Calvin Matteson, in the employ of Mrs.
Patrick Garvey OF Rosemont, is charged
with having stolen from her 500 in cash.
He fed and got as far as Fairbault, where
he was arrested by Officer Delaney and
taken to Roscmont. There he was com.
mitted by Justice Keegan until the next
term Of the district court.
New Tim Post: Mr.. John Briebel OF
Cottonwood town has, as is well known,
forty or fifty wild geese. Last fall, at the
first appearance OF snow, four flew away.
This spring they all returned from the
South, looking we'll and hearty. To Mr..
Griebel's asst onishment they came into the
stable and mingled with the others as cool
~ and unconcernedly as though they had
always remained at home. There was
shrewder look about them. however, than
about those that had remained at home.
While boys were washing sheep in Lake
Preston, fourteen miles west from Hutchi
son, they caught the body Of a man, badly
bloated and so disfgured rs to be past :,h
identity, bnt there were such marks as tc
lead to the supposition that the head
was crushed before the body was
placed in the water. 1t is also rumored
that it is the body OF David Topliff, a well